I actually thought about this more...here goes.

What is going on is this: mainstream media and tech are co-creating an illusion. The illusion is this: the entire Left has gone stupid, corrupt & insane. And the way it is accomplished is by collective institutional make-believe. https://twitter.com/goldsteinbrooke/status/1351066916216057856

All the civil libertarians are still here. The “free speech for ideas we hate” crowd is still here. The “Woke doesn’t make any analytic sense” crowd is here.

Ironically the Left leaning institutions are “manufacturing our consent” w forced “diversity & inclusion” loyalty oaths.

Now, individually, we object. But I’m told we’re “thirsty” by the internet if I say: “NPR, I used to have John Ydistie on speed dial” or “NYT I would talk to Robert Pear or Dennis Overbye or others with some frequency.” until something about 8-9years ago: Our lines went dead.

This was about the time of the Obama Era “Dear Colleague” letter that converted the Universities to indoctrination factories. This is the era of the DOJ “Operation Chokepoint”. And many of us who objected were suddenly just frozen out. More or less completely with no explanation.

Now, via you, I’m seeing this differently. I don’t need NPR/NYT or any of these outfits to talk to me. But they stopped taking to ALL of us. Effectively center Left media ghosted EVERYONE who didn’t sign on to the new extra crazy version of identity politics and safety culture.

And this is leads to several illusions:

A) The Left is insane & wants the police abolished so some can riot, firebomb courthouses, suspend policing at will.

B) The Left hates borders.

C) The Left is all in on collective guilt for slavery.

D) The Left is done w due process.

E) The Left has traded in Free Speech for Safety culture.

F) The Left wants equity as a cover for new discrimination and racism.

Etc.

But that is not what is happening AT ALL. The true Left HATES this institutional strategy. So institutions have settled on “Smear & isolate”.

We just don’t exist if media never talks to us. And if we manage to poke through using podcasting we are classified by the zealots running this strategy as Alt Right despite an enormous number of Jewish surnames and prominent black intellectuals in our ranks. As if we vanished.

So here is what I want to say. I’m on a platform here which has the power to throttle my speech. But if this tweet reaches you as an ANTI-Identity politics/pro-free speech-for-ideas Democrat, quote tweet the lead tweet of the thread & say that you still exist. We’re here dammit.

What I now see is that I allowed the internet hyenas to push me off. The point isn’t that I need to speak to the press, but that the press has to speak to the Left who HATE the direction of our modern Democratic Party away from equality & fairness for all independent of identity.

With smear&ghost, they have simply disappeared an enormous wing of the party. Vanished without a trace.

So if you are here and sick of our insane tech-media-academic-political “leadership” undoing our civil liberties, add your name?

With numbers, they can’t gaslight us all.